To think my neighbours are arseholes?

[stargirl04]

They were playing loud music the other night at 10pm. After about half an hour and I went round and asked them to turn it down. They did.

Now it's Saturday afternoon and I am at home trying to apply for jobs and all I can hear is thump, thump, thump through the wall. It's been going on over an hour now. I am f*ing fuming.

And they are always leaving bags of clothes outside their front door on the communal shared hallway - they sit there for weeks on end.

Young couple in their 20s/30s. Just want to smash their heads in with a baseball bat. I won't do that, of course, as I don't want to get a criminal record

I hate hearing other people's shiteous music booming out at any time, even before this mythical cut off time when not one is allowed to be annoyed. I have fantasised about having a full on shouty swear fest at ignorant twunt neighbours before, I've kept to just shooting them dirty looks in real life though.

I asked my neighbour to turn his music up- I wasn't keen on the thumping of an unknown baseline and was going crazy trying to work out what he was playing. So he did, and was very embarrassed as it changed from whatever-was-playing to One Direction.

I made him keep it on.

I don't even know my neighbour but I like to get on with people. I have never harboured any baseball bat related thought towards him. Or any others, I hasten to add.

If it's only occasionally you just have to put up with it I think, the downside to all living in each others pockets. However, if it becomes a regular thing then go and talk to them, they might not realise how far the sound is traveling. My TV is louder outside the front door than inside the house, it seems to have turned the house into some kind of speaker! So I'm mindful of that when it's on and if I'm singing along to the radio which comes through the tv

Good luck with the job hunting!

Damn you iPad- I typed bassline and bassline is what I thumping well meant. Don't make me harbour baseball bat related thoughts towards you, now!

Msswibble

I agree that it feels as if people are being incredibly selfish imposing their music on others. I feel really lucky that where I am now, no-one even really plays music in their gardens.

I think otehrs are genuinely not that bothered by other people's music, and so they really don't give it a thought when playing their own.

Silent

Yes. I'd actually prefer to to hear the music than just the bloody base

Bass, even

YANBU

There's no need for music or anything else to be so disturbing, no matter what the time. I know everything my neighbours do/eat/watch/argue about because they do EVERYTHING at full volume.

"Do you want this fucking spag bol or not"
"Do you want CBeebies on" (cue earsplitting kids TV)

Etc.

ALL THE TIME.
EVERY DAY.

Don't even start me on the 3am shagfest.

Thanks for these great suggestions folks. Posting here has certainly cheered me up (I asked them to turn the music up as I couldn't work out who the band was and it was annoying me) and taken my mind off it.

I do have to get a move on and sign off as I'm going out tonight. Didn't apply for any jobs though...

Thanks for your thoughts everyone. I'll have to sign off for now but will revisit when I get a chance.

Oh, and I like the suggestion about asking them to keep it to an appropriate volume - thanks fluffle. Really must go now. These boards are addictive!

Maybe that's my answer - when the music is on I'll just post here!

Blast music as well? If there's going to be loud music playing at least it'll be your favourite music . I used to do this pre-DC with the downstairs neighbour that insisted on blasting drum and bass till all hours, used to blast a bit of Fitzgerald back at him . Didn't stop him doing it but drowned out the horrible DUF DUF DUF not-really-music he played so I didn't have to hear it. Or to be less antisocial put earphones in as loud as your ears can handle with your own music on. It's not unreasonable if it's at night, I'd say any time after 9 PM but I think the law is 11pm, but is a bit unreasonable in the afternoon.

Love the suggestion of wearing the clothes they leave out .

YANBU in either your thoughts or what you have said.

I don't understand people, like half the posters on this thread, who seem to think that being able to hear someone else's music in your own home, especially a thumping bass line is acceptable. Why should the OP have to wear ear plugs in her own house? I can only assume that those people have never known what it is like to live next to, or in my case opposite, someone who plays music so loud it causes your windows to vibrate. It is very very annoying at 3 pm just as it is at 3 am and the OP is entitled to vent this here.

And as for saying that you have never heard people say something in 'jest' about wanting to smash someones head in with a baseball bat might I suggest you get out more, or watch some The Thick of It. Or even something much gentler like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy " You Pinstripe barbarians, I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung and drawn and quartered…a - and whipped and boiled… and then I'll chop you up to little bits! Until… until... until you've had enough!
And Then I'll do it some more. And when I've finished I'll take all the little bits and I'll… I'll - I'll jump on them! And I'll carry on jumping on them until I get blisters... or I can think of something even more unpleasant to do and then I'll.........what the hell is that?
Or you might like to watch Susan Calman on her current tour where she talks about the Icelandic Pony she had to ride for a TV program what was being an utter bastard. Tiny wee Susan shouting things like I'm going to rip of your fucking face and wear it as a mask you utter shit, was very funny because you know that she would never even entertain doing such a thing, it is just a way to vent, just like the OP can vent here.

Go and say something OP they might not realise how much it carries.

I think it's annoying to hear someone else's bass at any time but at certain times of day it is probably even more annoying. So OP I think YANBU.

Really I just posted to at Pipbin's post because it made me grin hugely in really life.

I like that I've made someone grin!

Yanbu at all.

Its unacceptable to hear thumping music at any time. Just because they enjoy it doesn't mean their neighbours should be forced to hear it. Just have a reasonable volume level and surely everyone is happy?!

It does my head in when people take comments too seriously, it was obvious you weren't being serious about the baseball bat fgs!

My soon-to-be-gone neighbour has music playing in the day at times. I am partly deaf and could hear it quite well without the hearing aids. Now I've got hearing aids, it's so loud. And is some of the modern pop thump, thump stuff.

I took a peak at the interior of the house via the estate agents website to see what's been done inside and you can clearly see the speakers are located up against the shared wall (semi-detached houses)

At present I don't have a sound system, I tend to use headphones with an mp3. If I did, I'd be blasting back with some nice, LOUD Rammstein.

Be interesting to see what the new neighbours will be like.

YANBU - it would really irritate me too. I can't stand hearing the thump, thump noise from music. If you want to listen to loud music then wear headphones.

I used to live in a flat and a neighbour beneath my flat constantly played his music far too loud with bass at max.
After asking him to turn ir down for the umpteenth time I bought a cheap CD of bagpipe "music", laid my speakers face down (so sound would be directed down to him), put on max volume and waited.....

30 seconds later he was at my door ......... I told him that in future everytime he shared his music with me I would reciprocate with the bagpipes. No more bother from him.

BMW6 - bagpipes? That is utter genius!

I didn't have time to go round and have a word with the neighbours, so as I was getting ready to go out I did what a pp suggested and played my own stereo at a robust volume, which drowned out the noise made by them.

I felt a lot better!

Lots of good ideas on this thread to be going on with